Incorrect. The squadrons which comprise a Carrier Air Wing - CVW - are dispersed at several Naval Air Stations. No CVW is headquartered at Whidbey. Whidbey is home to mostly VAQ - EA-6B and EA-18G - and VP - P3 - squadrons. Only one VAQ squadron is part of a CVW. The Lincoln's CVW, CVW-2, is headquartered at NAS Lemoore.
San Diego gets a ship named after a politician (pro-Navy, but still a member of a loathsome class of people) - WA gets the ship named after the war hero.
I don’t like CVN John Stennis, either.
DoH, I didn’t know that, I knew the A6’s were there, I thought the rest of the planes were on the Island too.
I was with a Q squadron back in the ‘70’s...it is hard to believe that an area that far north can be a rain forest...whidbey is beautiful